Did I just hear Tweety say

[malaise]

that all the Argentinians are Europeans. Is he completely mad or just ignorant.

[NanceGreggs]

1. Actually, he's both.

[LaurenG]

3. My thought too, some of each. nt

[Lex]

2. I think he is clearly a very stupid man.

But he could also be crazy? :shrug:

[EFerrari]

4. Maybe just off his meds? He's been unstable all week. n/t

[Roxy66]

5. You wouldnt think he would be so dumb, having worked w/Carter

[malaise]

9. Maybe the indigenous people don't count

in his world.

[LSparkle]

6. "People in this country care about our president and is he OK?"

DAMN YOU, TWEETY, NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH!

[Catherine Vincent]

16. I heard that remark by Matthews.

I don't know why he thinks that!

[sickinohio]

25. I love the picture

of that handsome prosecutor - Sure would like to give him a kiss or two!! Don't mind me, just doing a little day dreamin!!

:loveya: He's so cute!

[Catherine Vincent]

29. Back off chick!

He's mine! :hi:

[DemFromMem]

7. He's largely correct

The country has a native population, but it has a very large proportion of people who trace their ancestry to Spain, Italy, Germany and Eastern Europe (Buenos Aires has one of the largest Jewish communities in the world - including some of my family).

Visit Buenos Aires and you'll feel like you're in Paris or Rome.

[Lex]

12. Well, what you say is also true of Americans but we don't

refer to ourselves as European.

[hopein08]

19. Well put, Lex, I couldn't have put it better myself. eom

[CottonBear]

20. Most people there are second generation of European immigrants. n/t

[DemFromMem]

21. True

I was only commenting on the fact that the country is largely of European stock. What Matthews said that was offensive, however, was that it should have been more successfully economically because it is more "European" than the rest of South America. That sort of makes it sound like people of other ethnicities are not as capable or success economically.

[malaise]

14. Maybe he should visit other parts of the country.

You ignore the original inhabitants of South America. Damn.

[Zynx]

17. You beat me to the punch. The actual "native" population depends on

your definition. There are relatively few people there that can claim hundreds of years of ancestory there and a huge percent of the population is either first or second generation immigrants from various European countries. To a smaller extent percentagewise the same is true in Brazil.

[AntiFascist]

8. Tweety clearly hasn't got a clue, Lou Dobbs does though

He claimed something to the effect that this thrusts the administration into yet another big failure where we don't have a strategy for dealing with fair trade issues in the Western hemisphere (that's the Western hemisphere Tweety, Europe has other isses)

[On the Road]

10. Oh, Argentinians All Say That

I met an photographer last year who was from Argentina, and one of the first things he said was "we're really not South American -- we're European." Certainly confirmed that stereotype.

What they mean by that is that there's not as high a percentage of Native American blood in the Argentinian population. They're mostly descended from Spanish and other European immigrants rather than from the native population. It's actually a racist attitude, but it's pretty common.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

26. Actually he is wrong. Argentinians are MORE European than actual

Europeans. At least that's what I tell them when they start that bullshit.

[mshasta]

11. HE IS A FUKING ASSHOLE!!

he's an asshole
he's an asshole
he's an asshole
he's an asshole
he's an asshole

[sickinohio]

27. He's an

asshole that slobbers WAY too much!! YuK! I can't stand the asshole!

[Canuckistanian]

13. Isn't Argentina next to Spain?

That's where the Argentinians have that island that the British rescued, you know, the one in the North Sea.....

:crazy:

[DURHAM D]

15. Does Tweety refer to Canadians and North Americans as

European ?

Maybe he saw Evita.

[CottonBear]

18. Argentinia has a varied mix of racial and ethnic groups and native peoples

For example, there are lot of Eastern European Jews who emigrated there. My good friend is Jewish and he was born in Argentina. His grandparents emigrated from Eastern Europe to escape the Rusian and Polish pogroms of the early part of the century. He lives here in the US now. His family left Argentina for Israel (and left there because of war) and then Baltimore to escape the Dirty War.

[malaise]

24. My brother lived and worked there in

the 1980s and I visited. Maybe I was lucky enough to run into the non city groups. The bottom line is that all of the Argentinian population is not European.

[Fridays Child]

22. Argentina: White (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%...

...mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry), Amerindian, or other non-white groups 3%

The above statistics are from the CIA World Factbook.

On the other hand, Wikipedia sez:

Recent genetic research, conducted by the University of Buenos Aires, on mtDNA and Y chromosome has also revealed a surprising picture on the Argentine demography. The research indicates that although the Argentine population is overwhelmingly of European ancestry, around 56% of all Argentines possessed at least some Amerindian ancestry.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. I am listening to him and if he were smart, which he isn't, he should

keep his stupid mouth closed. He is reporting on something that he is completely ignorant of.

I had CNN on a bit earlier, and Lou Dobbs, briefly appearing with Wolf, really does get it.

[Zynx]

28. Actually, Argentinian is not the right word. It's "Argentine".

[malaise]

31. Correct n/t

[Rex]

30. Is he calling the protesters scabs?

I simply refuse to believe he tried to explain bloodlines on TVEE.

[malaise]

32. Send him this photo